Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1919 — RETURNED SOLDIER WRITES LETTER TO HIS BROTHER. [ARTICLE]

RETURNED SOLDIER WRITES LETTER TO HIS BROTHER.

Gamp Merrit, N. J., Aug. 2, 1919. Dear Brother: I arrived safely from overseas and am certainly glad to get hack. We had a long trip; took us ten days to make it. We landed today about 10 o’clock. We left Brest, France the (twenty-second of July. We have 'been on the Pocohontas, a one-stack vessel, which is the reason it took us so long to make the trip. Just bad a good hath and I feel like a new man. In Brest they run you through a delouser like a bunch of cattle, but it is much better here. Well, I have seen all of Europe I want to see. Even to mention the name to me makes me sick after all that we went through getting over there and coming back. How is grandma and dad? Teh them I said hello and I hope to see them soon, as I think we will be leaving here soon for some camp near our homes before we get a discharge from the army. My destination will ibe Indianapolis, if I am not mistaken, for (that is the closest to home. I guess this letter will surprise you to some extent, but I could not help writing after I got this close to home. Some of the boys are leaving this evening for some, place. The .boys were coming in here from all directions this afternoon, and going out, just a steady stream of them. I don’t know where they all came from. Have been feeling rather bine for about three days; in other words, sick. But I guess I can make it all right. Don’t answer for I expert to leave in a couple of days or so. Your 'brother, JOHN L. PETERSON, Co. A., 3rd Army M. P. Bn.